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Pipe Symbol in Blog Title

I've noticed some of my clients have a tendency to use a pipe symbol (this: | ) in their blog titles. Perch is encoding this as %7C for the URL/slug, which is breaking .htaccess clean URLs and causing a 500 error. After some Googling, I can't find a good way to make .htaccess handle this, and it seems the best solution would be for Perch to strip those characters from the slug entirely, which is what Wordpress does. Is this currently possible?

They like to use them as a pretty divider for the title. Here's one of my clients in action. The AJAX load works on titles with a pipe in them, like in the top right blog, "Featured | The Knot Magazine". But if you try to open that blog in a new tab, you'll get a 500. That's also what Google is indexing, so that's bad!